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Over the course of my writing career, I have written the classic novels
Olivers Twist, A Christmas Carol, Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, A
Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations
On June 9th, 1870, I died of a stroke leaving behind my final novel, The
Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished.
The plot centers on the years leading up to French Revolution and ends in
the Jacobin Reign of Terror. It tells the story of two men, Charles Darnay
and Sydney Carton, who look very alike but are entirely different in
character.
But first lets talk about satire; what is satire? Satire is the use of humor,
irony or exaggeration to expose and criticize peoples stupidity, also
known as sarcasm.
I have chosen two quotes from my book. They are both about a character
named Monseigneur who is one of the great and powerful lords of the
court.
In this first quote I wrote, Monseigneur had one truly noble idea of
general public business, which was to let everything go on its own way; of
particular public business. Monseigneur had the other truly noble idea
that the world was made for them. End quote.
In this next quote, I have satirized the corruption of the nobility pre
revolution. I have also not given Monseigneurs name, which allows the
reader to view him as a placeholder for nobility as a whole.
Yes. It took four men, all four ablaze with gorgeous decoration, and the
Chief of them unable to exist with fewer than two gold watches in his
pocket, emulative of the noble and chaste fashion set by Monseigneur, to